Holy #@%&!!! Blaming budget woes on a failed movie studio arrangement, the Allen Park City Council voted Tuesday night to issue layoff notices to its firefighters… The layoffs affect all 27 firefighters except for the chief, who is appointed. Allen Park had, apparently put all its eggs in a single basket: Unity Studios. When the film studio pulled out of […]

This Thursday, February 24, 2011, MoveOn.org is holding two “Invest in America Speak Out” events in Michigan (and others across the country.) Here’s the event description: The president announces his budget on February 14, and already, Republicans—and some Democrats—are campaigning to cut billions in funding from health care, education, and science programs. Cuts to our economic lifelines won’t do anything […]

This is starting to become a trend. Today in Lansing between 1,000 and 1,500 people, mainly union members, rallied at the Capitol Building. They were protesting a number of things including new Republican Governor Rick Snyder’s budget as well as a number of anti-union bills currently in before the Republican-run State Congress. Two different tea party groups planned a “counter-protest” […]

Last Friday I blogged about an absurd New York Times article that highlighted a Democrat that supports the moronic tea party Congresswoman from Minnesota, Michele Bachmann. This person chosen was sourced as, I kid you not, “one person on a blog”. Later that day, Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post ran a piece in which he quoted my blog and […]

From the Michigan AFL-CIO: Please join us tomorrow, Tuesday, February 22, 2011, for a LOBBY DAY in Lansing. We will begin at the Central United Methodist Church at 9:00 AM on Tuesday. There will be a briefing on anti-worker legislation that is moving through the House and Senate, followed by a talk with State Representative Woodrow Stanley (D-Flint). We will […]

Yesterday, I wrote about a state budget protest and Lobby Day being organized for tomorrow (Tuesday February 22, 2011). Turna out the “Southwest Michigan Tea Party Patriots” and the “Tea Party of Western Michigan” are holding a “Suppport the Budget Cuts” counter-protest at the same time. We will gather along Walnut on the West side of the Capitol. There seems […]

This past month has been a case study in how President Obama’s steady and measured approach to upheavals is exactly the right one to navigate through sticky issues both in our nation’s foreign policy and in our domestic scene, as well. In Egypt, the Obama administration received not-unexpected criticism from both sides. One group claimed he was acting too aloof, […]

Mark Williams is a Sacramento-based Rush Limbaugh wannabe. He’s best known for his hypocritical campaign to defeat the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” that was neither at Ground Zero or a mosque. It was particularly hypocritical because, as a tea partier, his credo is typically centered around local control and “State’s Rights”. This does not explain why a west coast talk […]

Cross-posted at Blogging for Michigan. Two big events are scheduled for Tuesday, February 22, 2011 in Lansing, Michigan. First, former Congressional Candidate Lance Enderle has a “Michigan Citizen’s Assembly” event planned from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Rick Snyder, you woke a sleeping giant (the people of Michigan)!Citizens are you Fed Up? Let’s Get Fired Up! Citizens of Michigan please join […]

Guess which governor doesn’t have a college degree? Yup, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. Explains so much doesn’t it? Like how he became the tea party candidate for governor. And how he allowed himself to be purchased by the Koch brothers. And how he could cut taxes by $140 million creating a $137 million deficit that he then felt he had […]

The Wisconsin State Journal reports that anti-union tea party protesters were out-numbered today 30-to-1. The crowd of protesters on the Capitol Square this afternoon has grown to as many as 60,000, according Joel DeSpain, a spokesman for the Madison Police Department. ~SNIP~ Early estimates of the pro-Walker crowd were around 2,000. UPDATE: The Associated Press is reporting that the number […]